Stephen Conway is Professor of History at University College London.
发表于2024-11-28
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
第一次了解美国独立战争大约是在初中的历史课本上,我还记得就是在初中我知道了美国第一任领导人--华盛顿,知道了《独立宣言》,知道了美国独立战争,知道了英国与殖民地。近来有幸读到斯蒂芬.康威的《美国独立战争简史》一书,让我对美国的独立战争有了一个更详细更深入的了解...
评分 评分 评分 评分美国独立战争,即1775~1783年期间英属北美13个殖民地反抗英国统治、争取民族独立的一场战争。战争的结果是英属北美13个殖民地取得独立地位,并成立一个统一的国家。而后经过1861~1865年间的美国南北内战,美国正式走上了蓬勃发展之路,并借助一战、二战两个难得的机会,成为一...
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The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere s ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; from the heroic resistance of the militia Minutemen at the battles of Lexington and Concord to the famous crossing of the Delaware by General George Washington; and from the American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of the British at Yorktown (1781), the entire contest is now emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The thirteen colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution but situates it on the wider, global canvas of European warfare.
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Offers proof that big things come in small packages. This is the work of a master historian at the height of his powers. I know of nothing like it.
--Jane Kamensky, Harry S. Truman Professor of History, Brandeis University.
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Stephen Conway has written an outstanding introduction for both students and laymen. He offers a compelling explanation of why Britain lost America.
--Andrew O' Shaughnessy, Professor of History, University of Virginia
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Stephen Conway's Short History takes a remarkably enlarged view of the American Revolutionary War: from a rebellion in the British colonies of North America to the intervention of European powers, to fighting that spread round the globe, to a post-war settlement in which Britain fared unexpectedly well. Conway has told this sprawling story with authority and clarity. He has shown that while the British were unable to keep thirteen of their American colonies, they did have the fiscal and naval resources to survive the war and fare better than their enemies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This Short History is just the place to begin to understand the American Revolutionary War. --Ira D. Gruber, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, Rice University
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"Stephen Conway's Short History takes a remarkably enlarged view of the American Revolutionary War: from a rebellion in the British colonies of North America to the intervention of European powers, to fighting that spread round the globe, to a post-war settlement in which Britain fared unexpectedly well. Conway has told this sprawling story with authority and clarity. He has shown that while the British were unable to keep thirteen of their American colonies, they did have the fiscal and naval resources to survive the war and fare better than their enemies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This Short History is just the place to begin to understand the American Revolutionary War."
--Ira D. Gruber, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, Rice University
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书